On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 11:30:09AM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Just get two separate devices:
* a VDSL modem, that you run in bridge mode and never touch again[0]; and * a router that can run OpenWRT well[1].
PPPoE happens on the OpenWRT router, so will Just Work.
what's the benefit of two devices, when there are lots of vdsl modem/routers with 128MB or 256MB RAM and 800+ Mhz multi-core CPUs that can run openwrt? That was some of the advice I got when i was looking into getting one in 2018 in preparation for NBN(*). which made no sense at all to me - why have two devices to perform to very closely related functions when there should be no problem running both functions on one device? it might have made sense when such devices were puny ~100Mhz devices with 16MB or so, but the modern versions are far more powerful. (*) turns out i didn't need a vdsl modem because FTTC. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>